Demography, reproductive biology and trophic ecology of red coral (Corallium rubrum L.) at the Costa Brava (NW Mediterranean) : ecological data as a tool for management = Demographie, Fortpflanzungsbiologie und Ernährungsökologie der Roten Koralle (Corallium rubrum L.) an der Costa Brava (NW Mittelmeer) : ökologische Daten als Werkzeug im Management

• Main Author: Tsounis, G.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research 2005
• Subjects: Roten; Berichte zur Polar- und Meeresforschung; Reports on Polar and Marine Research; Copepods
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/26173/; https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/26173/1/Tso2005d.pdf; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.25113; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.25113.d001

The Mediterranean red coral (Corallium rubrum, L. 1758) is a characteristical gorgonian living in semidark habitats in the coralligenous zone of sublittoral hard bottoms. Despite being harvested commercially for the use of its red calcium carbonate skeleton in the jewelery industry, its ecology is s...